Necktie holder



Patented Feb. 19, 1924.

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DAVID MCDEAN, OF LUS-ANGELES, CALIFORN.

NECKTIE HOLDER.

Application led September 12, 1922. Serial No. 587,748.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, DAVID VIELD Mc- LEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Necktie Holder,

' of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to 'tie holders, one of the objects being to provide a simple and inexpensive device which can be applied readily to a collar button after a collar has been buttoned on and which will act efficiently as a means for holding a bow tie in proper position in front of a collar.

Another object is to'provide a device of this character which can be used with any kind of a bow tie adapted to be tied by the wearer, the device being of such small size that it will not be visible when in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ln the accompanying drawings they preferred forms of the invention have been shown.

In said drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the preferred form of the device.

Figure 2 is a perspective viewof a modiied form.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a tongue extending from a bowed piece of sheet metal indicated at 2, this tongue being gradually reduced in width toward its free end and having a slot 3 extending longitudinally therein, the said slot gradually reducing in width toward the free end of the tongue. At an intermediate point the tongue is crimped transversely as shown at 4, thus to provide retaining shoulders 5 at the sides of the slot 3, leaving the narrow portion of the slot below the shoulders and the wide portion above the shoulders as clearly shown in Figure 1. Diverging fingers 6 extend from the body portion of the metal piece 2 and are supported in a plane substantially parallel with the tongue 1. Y

vInusing this device, which is preferably stamped out of thin sheet metal, the head of a collar button is inserted through the wide portion of the slot 3 and the neck of the collar button is brought to position within the narrow portion of the slot 3. The tie holder is located on the button with the body portion 2 uppermost and with the fingers 6 diverging downwardly. The bow tie is placed around the collar as ordinarily and brought under the body portion 1 and in front of the button B where the first tie is made. The tying of the bow is then completed and the loops of the bow will conceal the fingers 6 and the body 2 while said body, by overhanging a portion of the tie will prevent the tie from moving upwardly on the collar. In applying the device to the button it becomes necessary to snap the head of the button over the shoulders 5 and consequently the device cannot f be removed from the button without reversing this procedure. Thus it will be seen that the device cannot be accidentally displaced from the button and lost.

Instead of forming the tie holder out of a piece of sheet metal it can be made out of wire as shown in Figure 2. This wire is bent to form an intermediate button engaging loop 7 having a constricted mouth 8 for the reception of the stem of va collar button'. The wire is extended in opposite directions from the loop as shown at 9 and merges into substantially parallel fingers 1() having depending terminal portions 11 corresponding with the fingers 6. The portions 10 correspond with the body 2. This device is used in the same manner as is the form shown in Figure 1 with the exception that instead of depending on the shoulders 5 for retaining the holder on a button, the

loop 7 will contract at the mouth S so as toV prevent accidental separation of the holder and the button to which it is-applied.

What is claimed is:

A. tie holder comprising a tongue, a forwardly extending body portion integral with the tongue, spaced fingers extending downwardly from the body portion in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of the tongue, there being a button receiving slot in the tongue and having :L large as my own, I have hereto aiiixed my sigbutton head receiving portion extending nature 1n the presence of two Witnesses.

into the body, said tongue being ofset for y Wardly between .its ends 4to Iprovide ovei- DA 'TID W' MCIVJEAN 5 hangingoshoulders constituting button re- .Witnessesz taining means. NORMAN D. BISHOP,

In testimony that I ,olaini thel foregoing VANNA VVAnD. 

